FACES for the Future

Anne Nguyen graduated from FACES San Diego in 2013 and is currently a student at California State University San Marcos. “FACES gave wings to many students who lived throughout the underprivileged areas, like mine, and helped to make our dreams come true.”

FACES for the Future San Diego is a comprehensive health careers pathway program that prepares at-risk high school students from City Heights in San Diego for careers that offer livable wages and upward mobility. The program takes place at Hoover High School and Crawford High School.

City Heights is a large urban neighborhood where as many as 40 languages are spoken among its nearly 80,000 residents. It is a richly diverse community. Many of the residents are foreign born, with a majority migrating from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Fewer than 50 percent of the adults have a high school education, and 35 percent live in poverty. FACES students self-select into the program.